Imagawa Ujimoto and his party were following the young man holding a torch in a gloomy secret passage. The corpse of the dead rat exuded a foul smell that made everyone hesitate to hold it in. The secret passage was full of spider webs.
, it looked like no one had used it for a long time - if this young man hadn't led the way, Imagawa Shimoto would never have imagined that there was a secret door hidden under the moldy tatami in a dilapidated thatched house.
By the light of the fire, Imagawa Ujimoto began to look at this tunnel. The cross-sectional area of this tunnel was more than twice that of Furuno Ujitoyo's tunnel. There was no problem in walking upright. Every few dozen steps, he could see
When you reach a fork that leads to all directions, you can see a large group of tunnels. If you want to dig such a huge group of tunnels without being discovered, it requires manpower, material resources and control over Kyoto. It is difficult to
Imagination - this tunnel was either dug by the imperial family hundreds of years ago, or it was built by the Kamakura shogunate and Muromachi shogunate to monitor the emperor when it was still at its peak.
"Who are you?" Imagawa Yuan felt a little uneasy and asked softly to the young man in front of him.
"A commoner warrior, accompanied by a phoenix chariot, such a story has never been heard before."
The young man quoted a poem written by Fujiwara Tamifusa five hundred years ago and gave a vague reply. The well-read Imagawa Ujimoto naturally knew what the young man was referring to: when Emperor Shirakawa was in power, in order to protect the emperor who was traveling
To avoid the frequent attacks of the monk Ikaku, the ancestor of the Imagawa clan, Hachiman Taro Minamoto no Yoshiie, led his servants to accompany the emperor. However, Minamoto Yoshiie and others did not have official positions at that time and could only be regarded as civilians. In order to facilitate the battle, they also
He did not wear the formal belted robes of the imperial court, but instead wore commoner clothes for ease of fighting. He followed the emperor's sedan chair with a bow and arrow in hand.
This kind of behavior was considered nondescript in the court at that time, so Fujiwara Tamabusa left a record. Who would have expected that this incident would be the first for the royal family to hire samurai without official positions, and it was also the beginning of the famous "Northern Samurai"
The beginning. Since then, the focus of Japanese history has gradually shifted from the imperial family to the samurai family.
Just when Imagawa Ujimoto was pondering the meaning of the young man's reply, the young man suddenly stopped and said, "We're here."
"Where is the exit?" Imagawa Ujimoto looked around and couldn't find any passage.
"Here." The young man pointed to a small ditch at their feet. "From here, crawl over more than ten feet, then climb up half a foot, and you can enter the hotel."
"Where are you staying?" Imagawa Shimoto was choked by the pungent smell coming from the ditch.
"Shit pit." The young man said bluntly without hesitation, "I will send it here, you can do the rest."
Imagawa Ujimoto used a torch to shine a light there, and he could see that the ditch was covered with feces, urine and feces, and there were also many rats eating feces.
"Ugh——" The Furunoji Yutaka who followed behind him couldn't hold back after all, and vomited it out in one mouthful. Kira Weinari, Tian Shen Kentaro and the four Nakasugi family ninjas also had expressions of embarrassment. They didn't even want to save themselves.
His sister, Nakasugi Torachiyo, was always repelled, but he had no intention of raising it himself - anyway, Imagawa Ujimoto, who was so obsessed with germs that he would not even take a skewer covered in mud, would not do it anyway -
Before he could finish thinking about this idea, he saw Imagawa Ujimoto, who was dressed in white, without hesitation getting into the ditch and crawling forward on his hands and knees. The mice were startled by his movement.
They all fled from under him and to his side.
"No way..." Nakasugi Torachiyo held back the churning gastric juices, gritted his teeth, and crawled over with Imagawa Ujimoto. "Forget it, we can't let that fool Goro die alone!"
In the hotel, which was only a few dozen meters away from Imagawa Ujimoto, the ninjas at the door on the second floor suddenly felt something was wrong. There were some subtle noises coming from the room just now. They thought it was Ginkgo struggling, but they didn't
What a thought. Someone proposed to come in and have a look, but the other three people rejected it. They were afraid that Ginkgo would start shouting "I was molested" again as soon as they entered the door. Imagawa Yoshima followed the sound and saw that they were in the room, which would cause trouble.
However, as time passed, the movement in the house became louder and louder. But after a while, there was no movement at all. Several ninjas looked at each other, and finally did not dare to open the door themselves, so they went upstairs to ask Imagawa Ryo
It's a true report. Please come down and see for yourself.
"I have to come in person for such a trivial matter. Are you all just losers?" After hearing the report, Imagawa Yoshizhin was very angry, but the four ninjas couldn't tell their pain. When Imagawa Yoshizhin made the decision
After entering the door, everyone was shocked - the rope binding Ginkgo had fallen to the ground, the window of the house was opened, and Ginkgo was nowhere to be found.
"You guys..." Imagawa Yoshima wanted to immediately cut the corpses of the few subordinates who were doing things poorly in front of him into pieces, but he still suppressed his anger and quickly ran to the window to take a look - there was a block behind him.
"Did you see the hostages running away?" Imagawa Yoshima shouted to the ninjas who were watching in the corridor on the second floor and on the street behind the window. Everyone looked at each other in confusion.
"What a bunch of losers! They're as useless as the air crash rescue team!" Imagawa Yoshima was speechless at the efficiency of his ninjas, and immediately shouted, "They shouldn't have gone far! Go out and search the surrounding neighborhoods for me."
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After saying that, he stepped out in a rage, and the ninjas behind him kowtowed and hurriedly followed.
"Huh - why did it take you so long to leave? I almost fell asleep, I was so sleepy." In fact, Ginkgo, who was hiding in the closet in the house, finally breathed a sigh of relief and touched his arms when he heard the footsteps and finally left.
Li Miaomiao's hair said, "Good performance, I'll give you some chicken legs."
Imagawa's Motoya, who finally crawled out of the ditch, ignored the bad smell and sticky attachments on his body that were so bad that he had never felt anything in his life. In normal times, this situation would have made him worse than death.
He committed suicide immediately - but now he had to find Ginkgo quickly - of course he didn't know that the hostage he wanted to rescue had escaped on his own. But he knew that if he saw Ginkgo being wronged, he, who upheld the precepts for more than ten years, would
A good person who has never killed anyone in years may become angry and go on a killing spree.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After Imagawa Ujimoto, Nakasugi Torachiyo, Kira Uishari, Tasaki Kentaro, Na Furunoji Yutaka and four Nakasugi family ninjas also emerged from the ditch.
.They all picked up their weapons and stood close to the toilet door. After Imagawa Shimoto made a gesture, they rushed out together.
The two ninjas who were watching next to the toilet on the first floor of the hotel did not expect that an enemy would appear here. They were instantly cut down by Imagawajimoto who was at the forefront. However, Imagawajimoto did not kill anyone as always. These ninjas were all for execution.
The desperado, who was willing to do his job at any cost, found that he still had a breath of air, so he took out a hidden weapon and tried to attack Imagawajimoto at the closest distance. By the time Imagawajimoto noticed it, it was already too late.
However, at the critical moment, Chiyo Nakasugi Tora rushed behind him and struck out with two more daggers, stabbing straight into the throats of the two fallen ninjas. Blood continued to gush out from the corners of their mouths.
"Goro, what time is it? Quickly kill me! Otherwise, you will be the one who dies!" Nakasugi Tora Chiyo cursed in anger.
"I'm sorry, Torachiyo, for causing trouble." Imagawa Uchimoto said very apologetically when he saw that his soft heart caused Nakasugi Torachiyo to have his hands stained with blood.
"Forget it, these are brothers. You risk your life to save my sister, and I'll help you clean up the aftermath with my dirty hands as a return favor." Nakasugi Tora Chiyo laughed twice, calling for Imagawa Ujimoto to continue rushing towards the corridor.
, "Let's go!"
At this time, Imagawa Yoshima just happened to lead people to the first floor, and was bumped into by Imagawa Ujimoto and others. Although ninjas are good at assassinations and attacks, they are by no means a samurai opponent in a head-on duel. No matter how many people there are,
He couldn't move in the narrow corridor, and was beaten back by Imagawa Ujimoto and his team. Although Imagawa Ujimoto still didn't kill people ruthlessly, Nakasugi Tora Chiyo followed behind him in a tacit understanding, stabbing the fallen ones one by one.
People make up for their deaths.
"What the hell, how did you come out? Are all the ninjas watching outside taking a nap? So many people sneaked into the hotel without even a warning!" Imagawa Yoshima was continuously beaten by his ninjas within an hour.
After being tricked, he was extremely angry. Originally, he led the ninjas to enter the hotel first and used hidden weapons to suppress the surrounding open areas. He was already in an invincible position. Who thought that Imagawa Shimoto somehow directly
Appeared in the hotel.
As the saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs, and misfortune never comes alone. Just when Imagawa Yoshima complained that the ninjas under his command were not useful, the ninjas brought by Imagawa Ujimoto came to a rare end.
"I've realized something was wrong a long time ago. It's true that the tiger is being lured away from the mountain. Otherwise, why would His Highness send a stranger to deliver the order?"
Not long after being transferred to the north, Tsuchi Atomsune, who suspected something had changed, rushed back to Kyoto with most of his subordinates, and happened to meet Hayasaka Nao who came to deliver the order. After hearing Hayasaka Nao's report, the ninjas realized that they had been tricked.
He hurried to the hotel where Imagawa Ujimoto was staying. After discovering that a fight had begun in the hotel, he immediately joined the fighting group.
Imagawa Yoshima's ninjas were attacked both internally and externally, and were thrown into disarray by a sudden attack. They were about to be unable to hold on any longer. Imagawa Yoshima realized that the situation was beyond control, and without saying a word, he led the people around him to evacuate.
Outside Kyoto, before the men of the Tonatsu Sutra could control the horses, they grabbed the horses and fled eastward, directly heading out of Kyoto. Seeing that Imagawa Yoshizhin himself had withdrawn, the remaining ninjas immediately dispersed like birds and beasts, escaping individually. The Imagawa clan
Yuan didn't have time to chase them, but started searching for the whereabouts of Ginkgo all over the hotel.
He rushed straight to Ginkgo's room, only to find that the room was empty. Ginkgo's belongings were randomly thrown in the corner, and there was a broken rope next to the overturned chair. Imagawa Ujimoto knelt down and tried to find it.
There were no clues, but he found a few slender hairs scattered on the ground. He picked up a hair and brought it to his nose and smelled it. It was the smell of ginkgo.
Ginkgo...has been taken away...
Imagawa Ujimoto's face instantly turned pale, and his brain could not function at all. He tried to stand up tremblingly, but his body seemed unable to move. He suddenly fell to the closet next to the wall and opened the closet door.
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As a result, he was surprised to find that a young girl was sleeping peacefully on several sets of mattresses placed in the closet. On the girl's belly, Miaomiao was also sleeping soundly.
Seemingly disturbed by the sudden movement, Ginkgo blinked, then stretched out, as if she hadn't woken up. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, looking at Imagawa Shimoto, as if she had just met her for the first time.
He said hello lazily like that before: "Good morning, sir."
"Ms. Ginkgo, are you... okay?" Imagawa Shimoto, who had been found, was a little awkward even when he spoke, and asked stammeringly.
"It's okay. I figured out a way to escape on my own, but I couldn't get out of the hotel, so I hid here. There was no light and I was sleepy, so I fell asleep." Ginkgo, who was dizzy from sleep, has not yet responded.
Come here——Imagawa Jimoto who suddenly appeared in front of him had to put in a lot of effort and risk to break in.
"They didn't do anything to you, right?" Imagawa Ujimoto nervously checked Ginkgo's skin and clothes, and then he breathed a sigh of relief when he found nothing unusual.
"No..." Ginkgo rubbed her eyes and continued to mutter, "I said I was going to use it as a hostage to threaten you, how dare you use me in any way? That's fine."
"It's okay...it's okay..." Imagawa's disordered breathing gradually calmed down, but as he thought about it, he suddenly realized a problem.
"So if we don't come to rescue you, Miss Ginkgo can escape by herself?"
"Ah? Are you here to save me?" Ginkgo, who finally recovered from the half-asleep state, shook her head slightly to make herself more awake, "Yeah, I took care of it myself, you guys have been working in vain.
trip."
"Then..." Imagawa Ujimoto took a deep breath, then leaned over to look at his "brown" clothes stained with feces and urine and his stinky body. His mental breakdown was even more violent than before.
"ah--------------------"
A shrill scream rang out in the hotel, and a man covered in filth rushed into the bathhouse on the first floor with lightning speed and did not come out for a full hour.
After the chaos, in order to avoid investigation by the public security officer, Imagawa Ujimoto and his party moved to another hotel. Fortunately, the security outside Kyoto has always been poor, so their fight did not attract too much attention.
At this moment, Imagawa Ujimoto was lying on the bed with a face full of grief and anger. Every time he thought about what he had experienced today - the heroic visual and olfactory impact, this young man with severe mysophobia wanted to hit him to death.
"I'm not clean anymore...I'm not clean anymore...I can't get better..."
Imagawa Ujimoto repeated these words like a little monk chanting sutras. Ginkgo, who pushed the door in and saw him like this, felt funny and distressed at the same time, so she sat down next to him.
"I heard from Koichiro, sir, that you have been lying here all afternoon? My brother has even finished his apprenticeship and has retrieved all the art of war books he wanted from his master, and you are still lying there?" Ginkgo patted Mr. Imagawa gently.
Yuan's chest, and then began to play with the messy hair on his forehead, "Are you feeling better? Buy some Jinping candies for sir?"
"I can't get better." Imagawa Ujimoto slowly raised his right hand and pressed it on his face, "I'm about to burst."
"I've heard about it. Tell me about you. You are so clean that you don't even want to touch a skewer with a little mud on it. You have to wash your hands after doing anything. How can you still jump into a cesspit when you see it?
"Ginkgo was amused by Imagawa Ujimoto's appearance and couldn't help but chuckle.
"Aren't you worried about Miss Ginkgo?" Imagawa Shimoto muttered angrily, and then remembered the heart-wrenching feeling at that time, and sighed with fear, "I am afraid that Miss will encounter an accident, and I am afraid that I will never see Miss again.
When I think of these things, I don't care about anything else. I just want to save you, so why should I care about mysophobia?"
"Haha, I'm okay. Girls from the mountains are very capable, but they are not as delicate as you girls from Kyoto. They have to be protected by someone to be okay. Don't worry, sir, you won't never see me again.
..." Ginkgo was moved by Imagawajimoto's words, but she still boasted indifferently.
"But Miss Ginkgo will marry someone else in the future, and I'm afraid we'll never see her again again, right?" Imagawa Shimoto turned sideways, afraid that Ginkgo would see her reddish eyes, and said softly.
"Hey..." Ginkgo was also a little sad by Imagawa Shimoto's words, but in order to ease Imagawa Shimoto's mood, she still forced a smile and joked, "There are many ways, I can go out to have an affair with my husband, or he can take me
My future husband's family was wiped out and they took possession of me by force. However, my husband will leave a bad reputation for being greedy for beauty and stealing wives. And I will probably be called a beauty, and in the future, some people may say that my husband is
This is the war you started just to get me."
Imagawa Ujimoto was not amused by the joke, but suddenly stood up, held Ginkgo's jade hands, and stared into Ginkgo's eyes solemnly.
"Miss Ginkgo, let's get married."
Ginkgo was instantly attracted by the moving light in Imagawa's eyes, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and she felt as if her soul had disappeared.
After a moment, I realized what Imagawa Ujimoto was talking about.
"Sir... what are you... talking about..." Ginkgo blushed all of a sudden and hurriedly took her hand away from Imagawa Shimoto. She took two deep breaths and tried to calm down her emotions, but was still unable to do anything. Finally, she turned around shyly.